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Mercy (2026) Full Movie part 1
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00:00In the near future, Los Angeles faces an all-time high crime rate.
00:04Widespread homelessness and unemployment push the city into a full-scale crime epidemic.
00:09Prisons are overcrowded, and citywide red zones are established to contain the violence.
00:15Thousands of officers lost their lives in the line of duty.
00:18In response, the Department of Justice introduces the Mercy Court,
00:22a radical system where capital offenders are judged by artificial intelligence.
00:27The AI eliminates lengthy trials and delivers verdicts within hours of a murder being committed.
00:32In this courtroom, suspects are presumed guilty unless proven innocent.
00:36Two years after its implementation, the Mercy Court has convicted and executed 18 individuals.
00:42As a result, the city's crime rate has dropped by 68%.
00:46Now, Chris Raven, an LAPD detective from the Robbery Homicide Division, wakes up inside the Mercy Court.
00:54Judge Maddox informs Chris that she will be presiding over his trial.
00:59Panicked, Chris explains who he is, but Maddox calmly tells him to take a deep breath.
01:04He protests, insisting that he has sent criminals to the very chair he is now sitting in.
01:09Maddox informs him that he is ready for trial, as his blood alcohol level has dropped to an acceptable range.
01:16Confused, Chris asks the judge why he is here.
01:19Maddox finally reveals that he is on trial for the murder of his wife, Nicole Raven.
01:24She accesses the police evidence file and plays the footage.
01:27The body cam video shows an officer rushing into the kitchen.
01:31Chris sees his daughter, Britt, crying beside Nicole.
01:34The officer asks Nicole who stabbed her.
01:36With her final breath, Nicole whispers,
01:39Chris.
01:40Maddox informs Chris that the court will now present an opening statement outlining his ties to the victim.
01:46She reminds him that he was the only person in the house with Nicole at the time she was fatally
01:51stabbed.
01:52Chris insists she is lying.
01:54Maddox calmly tells him to check for himself.
01:56She enables voice commands and touch-sensitive controls so he can look for himself.
02:01He searches for Nicole Raven and finds a news video reporting Chris' arrest.
02:06The reporter also explains that Chris and his partner, Jacques Diallo, were early supporters of the Mercy program,
02:12and that Chris was responsible for bringing the first participant, David Webb, to Mercy Court two years earlier.
02:19Then Maddox informs him that, based on the available evidence,
02:23she has calculated his probability of guilt at 97.5%,
02:2717.5% above the 80% threshold required to trigger a Mercy trial.
02:32She then opens the municipal cloud.
02:35Maddox explains that every citizen and organization is legally required to connect their devices to it.
02:40She tells Chris she will have full access to the cloud during the trial
02:45and informs him that he can use this resource to prove his innocence.
02:49However, if he is found guilty, he will be executed in 90 minutes by a sonic fatal pulse.
02:55The trial begins.
02:57Chris panics.
02:58But Maddox calmly explains that if he can reduce his guilt probability from 97.5%
03:04to the 92% threshold of reasonable doubt, he will survive.
03:09Maddox then summarizes Chris' activities from earlier this morning.
03:13He arrived at work at 8.51 a.m., but instead of going inside, he turned around and returned home.
03:19Doorbell camera shows Chris asking Nicole to open the door,
03:23but she tells him she is done with him and that he can speak to her through a lawyer.
03:27Chris lets himself in with his key, and Nicole begins yelling at him.
03:31Maddox points out that Chris spent 26 minutes inside the house.
03:36Shortly after he left, Britt returned home from a sleepover and discovered Nicole's body.
03:41She tells Chris that the crime scene data shows Nicole was stabbed during the time he was inside the house.
03:47The wound, inflicted by a right-handed attacker, was so severe that it ruptured her liver.
03:52Chris insists he didn't do it.
03:54Maddox responds that he is right-handed and that traces of Nicole's blood were found on his shirt.
03:58She continues, explaining that after leaving the house, Chris went straight to a bar and drank heavily.
04:04Chris argues that he never went to a bar.
04:07Maddox then shows him bar cam.
04:09In the video, officers attempt to arrest Chris.
04:11He resists, but they eventually manage to handcuff him.
04:15Maddox asks if it is possible that the alcohol he consumed
04:18and the blow to his head during the arrest caused him to forget that he went to the bar,
04:21or even that he killed his wife.
04:23Chris remains silent.
04:25She then asks why he returned home this morning.
04:27Chris admits he cannot recall anything.
04:30He begins to sob as Maddox questions whether he had argued with Nicole about his drinking or about their daughter.
04:36Chris asks if he can speak to Britt.
04:38Maddox informs him that Britt is staying with Nicole's parents,
04:41and if he wants to contact her, he must submit a request first.
04:44Chris nods, and Maddox sends a formal request on his behalf.
04:48She informs him that court protocol allows him to contact his sponsor.
04:52Rob Nelson answers the call.
04:54He has been Chris's sponsor for two years and works at Viking Shipping, where Nicole was also employed.
05:00Rob says everyone at the company is shocked by Nicole's death.
05:04Chris admits he can't remember what happened.
05:07Rob sighs and tells him he should have called him if he felt tempted to drink.
05:11Chris insists he didn't kill Nicole, but before he can say more,
05:15Maddox abruptly ends the call, stating that the purpose of the call was to only address his relapse,
05:20and he failed to use the support offered.
05:23Chris argues that Rob knows how happy he and Nicole were,
05:26but Maddox responds with a faint smile, saying she is already aware of the state of his marriage.
05:32She plays a video showing Chris and Nicole's past.
05:35After three years of dating, they marry, and a year later, they welcome their daughter, Britt.
05:40For several years, Chris's life appears normal and stable,
05:44until Maddox highlights a traumatic incident on duty in which his partner, Ray, was killed.
05:50Then Maddox reveals that over the past six months,
05:53Nicole had sent 57 messages to friends and family about Chris losing his temper.
05:58Combined with his worsening drinking problem,
06:01Maddox concludes that Nicole had been considering divorce.
06:04She then plays another video.
06:07In it, Britt confides in her boyfriend, saying her father has become legit scary,
06:11and that her mother has been crying in bed.
06:14The boyfriend offers to pick her up.
06:16Suddenly, there's a noise of a door closing somewhere in the house.
06:20Britt says it might be her dad.
06:21And the video ends.
06:23Confused, Chris tells Maddox that they monitor her Instagram and never saw this video.
06:28Maddox explains that Britt maintains two Instagram accounts,
06:31one of which may be hidden from them.
06:32She plays another video that picks up immediately after Britt talked with her boyfriend.
06:37In this clip, Britt tells her followers that her house might be haunted.
06:40At that moment, Britt accepts Chris's request for a call.
06:44She cries, saying that her mom is dead.
06:46Chris gently tries to calm her.
06:49Britt then asks why he was sent to Mercy Court,
06:51if he had been at work at the time of the murder.
06:54Chris tells her it is all a misunderstanding.
06:57Britt mentions that her grandfather, Jeff,
06:59told her that no one gets a mercy trial unless they are guilty.
07:03Chris urges her not to listen to him.
07:05Just then, Jeff appears and ends the call.
07:08Chris tells Maddox that Jeff is trying to turn Britt against him
07:11and bitterly adds that Jeff never believed he was good enough for Nicole.
07:15Maddox simply smiles and reminds him to focus on the case.
07:19The clock is ticking.
07:20Chris explodes, shouting that the clock is meaningless
07:23and accusing Maddox of deciding people's fate
07:26before they even sit in the chair.
07:27She calmly replies that anger will not help him now.
07:31Chris argues that he has every right to feel anger,
07:34as he has lost his wife and his daughter is alone.
07:37He asks if she understands that.
07:39Maddox responds that she is not designed to feel anything,
07:42only to assess facts.
07:44Then she states plainly,
07:45if he is innocent, he must prove it.
07:48Otherwise, Britt will lose both her parents today.
07:51Chris inhales deeply and asks to speak with his partner, Jack.
07:55Maddox informs him that he may contact anyone during the trial,
07:58provided they can help gather evidence or offer character testimony.
08:03Chris chooses the second option.
08:06Maddox connects the call.
08:07Jack appears on screen.
08:09Chris insists he didn't kill his wife
08:11and, looking at a drone camera view of his house,
08:14asks Jack to walk him through the crime scene.
08:16He then asks Maddox for the crime scene files.
08:19Jack warns him that if the situation doesn't favor him,
08:22she won't lie, as they need every mercy trial to send a message.
08:26And that message cannot be that a cop gets a free pass.
08:29Chris nods.
08:30He asks Maddox for scene scans.
08:33She projects an immersive reconstruction of the crime scene
08:36based on the available footage.
08:38Jack notices a broken vase,
08:40suggesting that Nicole may have tried to defend herself
08:43by swinging it at her attacker.
08:45Moments later, Jack enters the kitchen.
08:48Chris asks Maddox about the footprints.
08:51Your daughters, Maddox replies.
08:53Jack suggests there may have been a struggle.
08:56Chris asks Maddox to zoom in near the countertop.
09:00Jack theorizes that Nicole might have thrown a plate at the attacker
09:03while backing away,
09:05prompting the killer to grab the nearest knife.
09:08Chris asks about the fingerprints on the knife.
09:11Maddox confirms they match his.
09:13Chris explains that Nicole was always afraid of knives,
09:16so he usually handled the cutting.
09:18He then asks about fiber evidence,
09:20which also points to him.
09:22Unsurprising, since he lives in the house.
09:24Jack concludes that it appears to be a crime of passion,
09:27and all the evidence points to Chris.
09:30Chris asks Maddox for Nicole's phone records.
09:32She brings up a virtual, interactive copy of Nicole's phone.
09:36He asks about her call history.
09:38Maddox scans and explains that
09:4033% of her calls and messages were with Chris,
09:4326% with Brit,
09:4510% with her parents,
09:46and the remainder with friends and colleagues from Viking Shipping.
09:49Chris suddenly recalls seeing Nicole texting someone
09:52the day they argued a week earlier.
09:54He asks Maddox to search through Brit's videos,
09:56since Brit often records their arguments.
09:59Maddox scans the footage,
10:00but reports that she couldn't find the number Nicole had sent the text to.
10:03Chris then asks about Nicole's work phone.
10:06Maddox says she has no record of Nicole owning a second phone.
10:09At that moment, an officer informs Jack
10:12that they have found a second phone inside Nicole's car.
10:16Maddox asks Jack to switch on Bluetooth on her mobile
10:18and hold the second phone close to it.
10:21Maddox scans the device and informs Chris
10:23that the phone is not a work phone, but a burner phone,
10:26unregistered in the municipal cloud.
10:27She notes that there is only one number in its call history,
10:31and that number also belongs to a burner phone.
10:34Maddox calls the number,
10:35but the person on the other end immediately hangs up
10:38upon hearing that the call is from Mercy Capital Court.
10:41Maddox then tells Chris that the phone signal
10:43is coming from the vicinity of the Hollywood Red Zone.
10:46Jack immediately heads there in her vehicle.
10:49Chris's guilt rate drops slightly.
10:51Maddox performs another scan
10:53and pinpoints the caller's exact location.
10:56The suspect is inside the Hudson Hotel
10:58and appears to be trying to escape through a back door.
11:01Jack spots a man who immediately runs when he sees her.
11:05Maddox identifies him as Patrick,
11:07a chef at the Hudson Hotel.
11:09Chris asks for an update on his guilt rate,
11:12but to his disbelief, it remains unchanged.
11:15He argues that guilty people run.
11:18Maddox calmly replies that frightened people run as well.
11:21Jack eventually catches Patrick.
11:23He insists that he hasn't done anything wrong
11:25and says he panicked after receiving a call from Mercy Court.
11:28Afterwards, he checked the news and saw that Nicole was dead,
11:31so he ran before things could spiral further.
11:34Chris bitterly remarks that Patrick seems like a deadbeat,
11:36and wonders what Nicole could possibly have seen in someone like him.
11:40Patrick snaps back,
11:42saying that he gave Nicole everything Chris couldn't.
11:45Maddox interrupts and asks Patrick how he knows Nicole.
11:49Patrick explains that he met Nicole at a farmer's market
11:52and that they began meeting regularly at the hotel afterward.
11:55When Chris asks about the burner phones,
11:58Patrick explains that Nicole wanted to communicate privately,
12:01so he bought her a burner phone.
12:04Maddox confirms that Patrick owned both a personal phone and the burner.
12:08Maddox then accesses the hotel's security cameras
12:11and rewinds to the estimated time of Nicole's death.
12:14Footage from the hotel kitchen shows Patrick working in the kitchen during that period.
12:18Chris quietly admits that it can't be Patrick.
12:21Patrick tells Chris that all Nicole ever wanted was someone to listen to her.
12:25Jack then places Patrick under arrest for resisting.
12:28Maddox informs Chris that his guilt rate has now increased
12:31because, instead of presenting the court with a suspect,
12:34he has established a stronger motive for why he might have committed the crime.
12:37She asks Chris whether he truly believed he would find evidence to exonerate himself,
12:41or if he just wanted to see the man who slept with his wife.
12:44Chris dryly asks Maddox if she really thinks he killed Nicole after finding out about Patrick.
12:50Maddox sharply replies that he's clearly not telling everything,
12:53noting how he could jump to the idea of an affair so quickly unless he already suspected something.
12:58Chris admits he isn't surprised about Patrick.
13:01He confesses that he had been letting his wife down lately.
13:04Even this morning, Chris reveals that Nicole had found the stash of alcohol hidden in his car.
13:09Maddox asks when he started drinking again.
13:11A year ago, he answers.
13:13In the video, Nicole is seen confronting Chris about his drinking.
13:24In the video, Chris briefs fellow officers about an SUV linked to a hit-and-run case.
13:31The vehicle belongs to a suspect named Alex.
13:34As Chris prepares to investigate, he receives a call from Nicole,
13:38so Ray offers to check it out himself.
13:41Tragically, Ray is shot.
13:44As Chris rushes him to the hospital, he begs him to stay awake, but Ray dies.
13:49Chris tracks the suspect down to the beach.
13:52Later, Alex is never found guilty.
13:55Chris admits that he should have killed Alex when he had the chance,
13:58and that weighs on him to this day.
14:00Chris then finally reveals that when he arrived at work this morning,
14:03he reached for the bottle he kept in the car, but it was gone.
14:07He assumed Nicole had found it.
14:09Furious, he went home and confronted her.
14:12They argued because she had thrown away his bottle.
14:14In retaliation, he smashed her favorite vase.
14:17A shard of glass flew up and cut her.
14:20He says he offered to clean up the blood,
14:22which explains why Nicole's blood was found on his shirt.
14:25Maddox asks why he didn't mention this earlier.
14:27Because it made me look bad.
14:29Chris replies.
14:30Chris admits that he genuinely doesn't remember what happened after that.
14:33Then, somberly, Chris concludes that if Nicole was mad enough to tell Patrick about him,
14:38he really was out of it, and in his rage, he might have grabbed a knife.
14:42Maddox interrupts him, saying that if he confesses to murder,
14:45she will lock the verdict,
14:47and he simply has to wait for the time to go down before his execution.
14:51Chris sighs then asks Maddox to show him everyone that Nicole had regular contact with.
14:56Maddox pulls up a list on the screen.
14:59He tells her to separate the names into friends and co-workers.
15:02Chris admits that Patrick is right.
15:05If he had been closer to Nicole, he would have known what was happening in her life.
15:09Then he tells Maddox that he needs to speak with Patrick.
15:13She informs him that Patrick is currently being processed at a local police station and arranges the call.
15:18When Patrick appears on screen, Chris asks whether Nicole had been facing any problems.
15:23Patrick shakes his head and says it was the usual complaints.
15:26That Chris wasn't spending enough time with her or with Britt.
15:29Then Chris asks Patrick if Nicole had any trouble at her job.
15:33That question sparks something in Patrick's memory.
15:36He reveals that Nicole had been dealing with an issue at work.
15:40Someone had been stealing chemicals from the company,
15:42and after a customer reported missing materials in a shipment,
15:45her boss asked Nicole to investigate.
15:48She didn't like snooping into other people's business,
15:51but she had been looking into it nonetheless.
15:53Chris turns his attention to Nicole's colleagues.
15:57Maddox points out that all of them are at work today,
15:59and that none of them have been within a mile of his neighborhood since Sunday.
16:03Chris nods.
16:05That's when we had the barbecue.
16:07Chris contacts Jack,
16:08saying he has a hunch and instructs her to check out the Viking Depot.
16:12Maddox asks what he means by a hunch.
16:14Chris replies,
16:15it's about trusting your gut, something the court could use.
16:18Maddox points out that the court deals in facts,
16:20but Chris counters that truth is rarely black and white.
16:24He then asks Maddox whether Britt recorded anything during the barbecue.
16:28They review the footage.
16:29Chris theorizes that the killer may have used the barbecue as an opportunity to scope out the house.
16:35Maddox checks the street cameras.
16:38Of the 46 cars that passed by his house this morning,
16:41not a single one stopped.
16:43Chris thinks for a moment and asks about the streets behind his house,
16:46noting that someone could have jumped the back fence.
16:48This reminds him of his neighbor Bill,
16:50whose house sits behind theirs and has a bird camera installed.
16:54Maddox tries to access the footage but hits an error.
16:57The files are still archiving after a recent internet outage in the area.
17:01Chris pauses, thinking,
17:02the barbecue started at 2 p.m. on Sunday.
17:05He asks Maddox how many employees drove their own vehicles from Viking Shipping Company.
17:10Four vehicles, she replies.
17:12She tracks Rob's vehicle as it is the first to enter his street at 2.30 p.m.
17:16But Chris notices that Rob wasn't alone.
17:19There were three passengers with him.
17:20He tells Maddox he needs to speak with Rob.
17:23On the call, Chris asks Rob about the people he gave a ride to.
17:27Rob names Carla, Marie, and Leo.
17:29Chris then asks whether they all left together after the party.
17:33Rob shakes his head, saying there hadn't been a set plan.
17:36Instead, he ended up driving Deborah and Bill home,
17:39and the others made their own arrangements.
17:40Chris then asks if anyone missed work the following day, Monday.
17:44Rob says no.
17:46Next, Chris asks Maddox to replay one of Britt's videos,
17:49the one featuring the sleazebag.
17:52Chris asks when it was filmed,
17:53and Maddox provides the timestamp.
17:57I think my dad's home.
17:58I'm out.
17:59Chris nods slowly and asks Maddox to access his department logs to confirm the time.
18:05According to the records,
18:07he was still at the precinct when the video was recorded.
18:10Finally, he asks Maddox to connect him to Britt.
18:13When she appears on screen,
18:14she's in tears and accuses Chris of being a liar.
18:16She shows him a video posted on YouTube.
18:19Chris, drunk at a bar when he was supposed to be at work.
18:23Britt, unaware that Chris had started drinking again,
18:25asks if that's why he's been acting like a jerk for the past year.
18:29Then she asks if he killed Nicole,
18:31but Chris swears he didn't.
18:33As Britt moves to end the call,
18:35Maddox steps in,
18:36explaining that her father is mounting a defense
18:38and that Britt's help could make a difference.
18:40But Britt insists he killed her mother.
18:43Not necessarily, Maddox replies calmly.
18:46Chris gently shifts the conversation.
18:48He asks about the video Britt posted on Instagram the previous night.
18:52Britt snaps at him,
18:53accusing him of snooping through her private life.
18:56Chris quickly apologizes.
18:58She then explains that she heard what sounded like a door closing.
19:02She checked the house, but didn't find anything unusual.
19:06Shortly after that, a friend picked her up for a sleepover.
19:09Chris asks Maddox to replay the video.
19:11He notices the basement door is slightly open.
19:13He asks Britt if she opened it.
19:15She shakes her head.
19:16Maddox enhances the image,
19:18confirming his suspicion.
19:19A realization dawns on him.
19:22The killer may never have left the house after the barbecue on Sunday.
19:26Instead, he could have stayed hidden and killed Nicole on Tuesday.
19:30Chris promises to explain everything to Britt later and ends the call.
19:33He then looks at the probability meter.
19:35His guilt percentage hasn't dropped.
19:37It could just be a shadow, Maddox suggests.
19:40She also points out that he's overlooked a critical piece of the puzzle.
19:44The person stealing chemicals from Viking shipping.
19:47Chris nods and begins searching Nicole's email for anything related to missing stock.
19:53He comes across repeated references to UG.
19:56What's UG?
19:57He asks.
19:59Urea Grande, Maddox explains.
20:01A chemical that appears frequently in Vikings records.
20:04One particular name catches Chris' attention.
20:07He asks Maddox how much UG has gone missing.
20:10After scanning the data, Maddox reports that over the past six months,
20:15every shipment to BioBeauty has shown discrepancies.
20:18Each delivery docket lists an additional 50-kilo container,
20:22even though the physical orders match the original quantities.
20:25Chris asks if they are being overcharged.
20:27And Maddox clarifies that the physical inventory is correct.
20:31It's the paperwork that's altered.
20:33Chris quickly pieces it together.
20:35The stock records show extra inventory on paper,
20:38but someone is stealing product from the real shipments.
20:41Maddox calculates that over 300 kilos of Urea Grande are missing.
20:46She further explains that synthetic urea is commonly used in dermatological products
20:50and in the production of methamphetamine,
20:53which is highly profitable on the black market.
20:55They access Holt's inbox and find an email from Friday,
20:59requesting an urgent meeting with Nicole.
21:02Maddox immediately pulls up security footage from Viking shipping.
21:05In the video, Holt and Nicole appear to be arguing.
21:10Chris reviews his emails and discovers that Holt has a gambling problem.
21:14He asks Maddox to retrieve Holt's financial records from the past six months.
21:18Then Chris spots something significant.
21:20Rob transferred Holt $4,000, possibly to help him out.
21:25Chris smiles, realizing that Holt could have been the one stealing the chemicals
21:29to manufacture drugs and sell them to pay off his debts.
21:32When Nicole uncovered the scheme, he silenced her.
21:35The guilt rate drops.
21:37Chris contacts Rob, but Holt answers the call instead.
21:40Sounding concerned, Holt asks Chris if he's all right.
21:44Maddox intervenes and tells Holt to put Rob on the line.
21:47Holt stammers, claiming he was just passing by when he saw the call and decided to answer it.
21:52He offers to look for Rob and steps away.
21:54Chris asks where Jack is.
21:56Maddox informs him that she is four minutes away from Viking shipping.
22:00He tells Maddox to keep tracking Holt's movements and, in the meantime,
22:03to pull up the bird cam footage from his neighbor's house.
22:06She plays the video.
22:08Chris notices rustling leaves at 10.08 a.m.
22:12Maddox adds that the camera is motion-activated again at 11.43 a.m.
22:17Maddox tracks Bill's phone and reports that he left his house at 11.23 a.m.
22:22However, the surrounding neighborhood cameras were also affected by the internet outage,
22:26so updated footage will take more time to archive.
22:29Holt returns to the call and claims he cannot find Rob.
22:33Frustrated with Holt's innocent act, Chris accuses him directly of killing Nicole
22:37after she discovered he was stealing chemicals.
22:39Holt hesitates, then insists that Rob is the one who was stealing the chemicals.
22:44He admits that both he and Nicole discovered the theft,
22:47but chose not to report Rob because he had always been good to them.
22:49Rob had even helped Holt financially when he was in trouble.
22:52Chris demands to know where Rob is.
22:55Holt says he just learned that Rob left work early because he felt sick.
22:59The manager allowed him to leave,
23:01especially since Rob had called in sick the previous day as well.
23:04The last time Holt saw Rob was at the barbecue.
23:07Rob stayed behind after everyone else left to speak with Nicole privately
23:10and reassure her that everything would be fine.
23:13He also asked Holt to take his car on Sunday
23:15so he could give rides to the co-workers who had arrived with him.
23:19Maddox tracks Rob's vehicle and discovers it is at his home.
23:23Chris instructs Jack to go to Rob's house while Maddox notifies the local SWAT team.
23:27Maddox shows Chris the archived traffic camera footage.
23:30It shows Bill Peterson's car pulling up on the lot.
23:33After Bill exits the vehicle, Rob emerges from the trunk.
23:37Chris' guilt percentage drops again.
23:39Chris urges Maddox to rely on her instinct.
23:42She glitches and reboots.
23:43Meanwhile, the SWAT team arrives at Rob's house and forces entry, but Rob is not inside.
23:49Maddox points out that the GPS tracker still shows the vehicle is at the house.
23:53Chris realizes that Rob must have removed the tracker and left it there to mislead them.
23:57Chris tells Maddox to search the traffic cameras for the truck.
24:00Maddox reports that there is no detectable Viking license plate.
24:04Chris concludes that Rob likely removed that as well.
24:06An officer informs Chris that there is nothing useful inside Rob's house.
24:11Chris asks him to hold that photo closer.
24:14He notices that half of the picture has been torn away.
24:17At Chris' request, Maddox scans the image.
24:19While it processes, he asks her to pull earlier surveillance footage from Rob's house.
24:24He instructs the officers to search the garage.
24:27Inside the garage, they discover burned papers deliberately destroyed.
24:32Maddox points out that Rob is capable of manufacturing the drugs himself,
24:36given his college degree,
24:38and she calculates the estimated profits he would make if he sold the product in the red zones.
24:43Then Chris looks at Jack and instructs her to go back.
24:47He points out that when they last called Rob, he was not at Viking Shipping.
24:51The officers then discover containers of Urea Grande,
24:55along with a truck license plate and physical maps.
24:58Chris observes that Rob operated completely offline,
25:02leaving no digital trail,
25:03which explains why Maddox initially failed to flag him.
25:07Then they find a book, which Maddox identifies as a book.
25:12Inside is a detailed manual for constructing a book,
25:15and Chris immediately alerts the officers.
25:18Maddox scans all available local traffic cameras
25:21and finally locates Rob,
25:23determining that he is driving a truck carrying approximately 3,000 pounds of explosives
25:27and heading toward downtown.
25:28As she cross-references facial recognition data,
25:32another shock emerges.
25:34The boy beside Rob is David Webb,
25:36the man Chris previously sentenced to mercy court.
25:39It turns out David Webb is Robert Webb's younger brother.
25:43Rob had been adopted separately and later changed his last name.
25:46Chris realizes that he first met Rob at an AA meeting.
25:50Sponsoring him happened only after David's trial.
25:52The truth becomes clear.
25:54This was never about Nicole.
25:56It was about Chris and about Maddox.
25:59Rob is seeking revenge.
26:01Chris relays the findings to the authorities
26:03and warns them that mercy court is the intended target.
26:06Chris attempts to call Britt,
26:07but Jeff answers her phone.
26:09Chris immediately asks Maddox to access the doorbell camera.
26:12The footage shows Britt outside,
26:14speaking with Rob,
26:15before he forcibly takes her.
26:17Chris orders Jack to pursue Rob.
26:19At that moment,
26:21an officer shouts that there is a bomb inside the garage.
26:24The team scrambles to evacuate,
26:25but the explosion detonates,
26:27killing several officers.
26:29Chris' guilt percentage finally drops to zero.
26:32However,
26:33he tells Maddox he does not want to end the trial.
26:36If the proceeding concludes,
26:38he will lose access to the system's resources
26:40and surveillance network.
26:42Maddox resists the idea,
26:44stating that the court process has reached its verdict.
26:46Chris argues that Rob has taken many lives.
26:49They owe it to the victims to stop him before he kills more.
26:53Maddox glitches again.
26:54She tells Chris that his instincts were right,
26:56but then questions herself.
26:58What if she failed people before?
26:59Chris tells her he understands.
27:01He admits he is in the same boat.
27:04He failed the people he loved most.
27:06But they have one chance to make it right.
27:09Police vehicles pursue Rob's truck.
27:11Maddox establishes a live connection
27:13with the tactical response team.
27:15They inform Chris that they plan to stop Rob
27:17at the far end of the bridge,
27:19far enough from downtown to minimize casualties,
27:21and extract the hostage safely.
27:23The operation begins,
27:25but they are unable to safely retrieve Brit from the truck.
27:28Jack, now acting as incident commander,
27:31makes a critical call.
27:33Kill Rob.
27:34She tells Chris that if Rob clears the bridge,
27:36he will enter a densely populated area.
27:39Chris begs them not to,
27:41reminding them that Brit is with him.
27:43But the tactical team moves forward anyway.
27:46At the last second,
27:47Maddox intervenes,
27:48saving Brit's life.
27:50Chris thanks her.
27:51Maddox informs him that Rob
27:52is now three minutes away from Mercy Court.
27:55She immediately issues evacuation orders for the building.
27:58Chris tells Jack he needs to speak to Rob directly.
28:01Maddox instructs Jack to position her air unit
28:03in front of the truck.
28:05Then she hacks into the truck's radio frequency
28:07and opens a communication channel.
28:09Rob speaks first.
28:10He tells Chris that he recognized him
28:12the moment he walked into the AA meeting
28:14and admits that Chris has been haunting his dreams
28:16for the past two years.
28:17Rob admits that his brother had problems,
28:19but insists he could have helped him.
28:21Instead, Chris sent him to Mercy Court.
28:25Rob says he wanted Chris to sit in that chair
28:27knowing he was innocent,
28:29the same way his brother did.
28:31Chris argues that David was a murderer.
28:33Rob shouts back that he was not.
28:35Suddenly, Jack fires at the truck.
28:37Chris shouts at her,
28:38demanding to know what she is doing.
28:40Maddox overrides Jack's vehicle systems.
28:43Rob speeds forward
28:44and crashes through the entrance of Mercy Court.
28:47He exits the truck
28:48and begins firing at the officers.
28:51Chris yells at Maddox
28:52to release him from confinement.
28:54He takes the elevator to the lower level
28:56and grabs an officer's vest and earpiece,
28:58allowing Maddox to maintain contact.
29:00Rob shouts for Chris to come out.
29:02Chris steps forward
29:03and asks Rob to let Britt go.
29:05Rob refuses.
29:06He says this ends here
29:08with the court,
29:10the judge,
29:10and Chris.
29:12Then Maddox appears on a nearby screen.
29:15Calmly, she addresses Rob,
29:16telling him that if David was truly innocent,
29:19he should prove it.
29:20Rob agrees to explain.
29:22He says his brother struggled with drug addiction,
29:25so he tried to help him,
29:26giving him money and a phone to stay in contact.
29:29Then, out of nowhere,
29:31David was accused of murdering a woman.
29:33Rob insists it was impossible.
29:36He claims he was on the phone with his brother
29:37at the exact time of the murder.
29:39As Rob speaks,
29:41Maddox quietly informs Chris
29:42that if he pulls the battery from the detonator,
29:45there is an 82% chance the bomb will not explode.
29:48Maddox then lays out the official record.
29:50Valerie, the victim,
29:52was found in the underpass at 6 a.m.
29:55She had been stabbed to death around 10 p.m.
29:57the previous night.
29:58David's fingerprints were on the knife.
30:01Rob yells that David could not have done it
30:03because he was on the phone with him at that exact time.
30:05Britt bites Rob's hand.
30:07Chris lunges forward
30:08and manages to rip the detonator from Rob's grip.
30:11Chris raises his gun at Rob,
30:12but Britt pleads with him not to do it.
30:14Breathing heavily,
30:15Rob insists that after speaking with his brother,
30:17he called the precinct to confirm the call history.
30:20Suddenly, Jack shoots Rob.
30:22Chris shouts at her to stand down.
30:24With his last strength,
30:26Rob repeats that he called the precinct.
30:27A woman answered,
30:28promising to check the records.
30:30Maddox verifies the claim.
30:32There was indeed an incoming call from Rob that night.
30:35Chris slowly turns toward Jack
30:36and tells her that she was the officer
30:38who processed and booked David Webb.
30:41Maddox tracks David's phone location history.
30:43It shows the device at the crime scene,
30:45then later at the station.
30:47Chris instructs Maddox
30:48to bypass internal access protocols
30:50using his credentials
30:51and pull Jack's body camera footage
30:54from the evidence room.
30:55In it, Jack is seen taking David's phone
31:00from the evidence room
31:01and later discarding it.
31:03Jack argues that mercy court was necessary.
31:06Because of it, crime rates dropped.
31:09Sacrifices had to be made.
31:10The officers arrest both Rob and Jack.
31:14Maddox appears on the screen
31:15and quietly asks Chris what they have done.
31:17Chris replies,
31:18Whether human or AI,
31:20we all make mistakes and lie.
31:22Maddox whispers,
31:23Yes, we do.
31:25And then shuts down.
31:26And then shuts down.
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